Court could get Bush out of jail over Guantanamo

Foreign Editor's Briefing by Bronwen Maddox

THE US Supreme Court is about to deliver a set of rulings that will determine the fate of Guantanamo Bay.



For the past 11 days, since President Bush announced that he would like the detention camp “to be empty”, we have been able to assume that we are seeing the last of Guantanamo, at least on its present scale.

Bush’s startling reversal shows the dim recognition of the US, at last, of the calamitous effect of Guantanamo on its reputation among its allies and its potential enemies.

But that has crystallised, it seems, only in response to the world’s disbelieving outrage at the three recent prisoner suicides and the breathtakingly dismissive comments of two US officials, which exposed beyond parody the US’s inability to see itself as others do.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2233062,00.html

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Or is * trying to telegraph something he knows already about the Court's decision?

it will be the international court which will file charges against Bush.

I'm beginning to doubt that the powers that be will allow American democracy to prevail before then.